reassures
基本解釋
- v.使…安心；再保證；重拾(信心等)
用法辨析
- reassure的基本意思是打消別人的疑慮或安慰某人。引申可指“向…保證”。既可用作及物動詞,也可用作不及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,可接名詞或代詞作賓語。也可接雙賓語,直接賓語可由that從句充當。
- 在非正式語體中, reassure能引出直接引語,作“寬慰某人”解。
- reassure與about連用,意思是“寬慰,消除疑慮”。
v. (動詞)
英漢例句
- The doctor reassures the sick man.
醫(yī)生讓他的病人消除對健康的疑慮。 - “You're positive no one knows we are out of town?”“No one,I'm positive.”Adcock reassured him.
“你肯定沒人知道我們出城嗎?”“是的,我敢肯定。”阿德科安慰他說。 - I was trying to reassure her that things weren't as bad as she thought.
我設(shè)法安慰她說事情并不像她想象的那樣糟糕。